How Slate Survived the Great Slack Outage of June 27, 2018

Slack, the workplace chat app, went down Wednesday morning for more than three hours, sending office workers the world over into fits of faux-despair (just hours before the announcement of the retirement of Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy would send many of them into real despair). People who are used to being able to instant-message or group-chat or emoji-bomb their co-workers--even the ones sitting right next to them--were suddenly cut off from their favorite double-edged sword...